Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 2 | Memory of him standing there waving with two black holes in the middle of his face . |
| 3 | Sometimes when I was drunk and I 'd see him standing there looking all quiet and black and white and gorgeous , waiting for someone to take him home , I 'd get all teary and want to go up and slap him and shout in his face : How can you possibly understand what it means ! |
| 4 | I saw him standing there getting wet all over him and I said to myself he was a fine person . |
| 5 | Although Barry had consistently denied the drug accusations which had bedeviled him throughout much of his time in office , pressure upon him increased significantly following his discovery in December 1988 in a Washington hotel room by police who had arrived to investigate drug allegations against Charles Lewis , a friend of Barry 's . |
| 6 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 7 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 8 | Legend has it that ZEUS granted the boy immortality on condition that he remain forever slumbering . |
| 9 | He goes there talking about paper sovereignty , when the country 's real sovereignty is increasingly dependent on the actions of our European Community partners . |
| 10 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 11 | He sits there sucking on a dead cheroot , staring at the board like he 's forgotten a phone number . |
| 12 | He sits there panting er it 's not Warren it is Wesley , alright ? |
| 13 | well he sits there talking at dinner times well then when she goes |
| 14 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |
| 15 | WILLIAM CITRINE , 60 , of Raleigh Road , Leasowe , was fined £80 and ordered to pay £35 costs by Wirral magistrates after he admitted dishonestly receiving a stolen excise licence and fraudulently using it on his vehicle . |
| 16 | During his brief court appearance the former " junk-bond king " wept as he admitted knowingly breaking the law by manipulating the financial markets between 1984 and 1986 . |
| 17 | Herd life extended beyond the office out to the organization man 's natural habitat , the suburban community , where he found even watching television was a group activity . |
| 18 | Already Robin 's fingernails are growing and blood is flowing through the hand , although he has little feeling higher than the base of his palm . |
| 19 | He stands there staring into the darkness . |
| 20 | When the King left London in 1642 to travel north and set up his standard for the Civil War , he visited Little Gidding , together with Prince Rupert and Prince Charles . |
| 21 | On a clear spring day in May 1936 he visited Little Gidding , once the home of Nicholas Ferrar , and entered the small chapel there . |
| 22 | If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk . |
| 23 | He recalled excitedly bringing home a drawing from school , which a teacher had praised . |
| 24 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 25 | Though he recalled once scoring a hat-trick for Toronto Blizzard , Nicholl 's two goals against Dunfermline marked the first time in his senior career that the Irishman had notched a double in top-class football . |
| 26 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 27 | But he came here thinking I had that jewellery , and then it fell right out of my closet . |
| 28 | ‘ Ye gods ! ’ he added hastily dropping the lid of the commode . |
| 29 | Cyril Reenan sold the tape to a newspaper for six thousand pounds , but he says he regrets ever recording it and is going to give the money to charity . |
| 30 | His first posting was to Abu Dhabi , where he recalls routinely testing wells with 20,000 barrels a day production capacity — by burning the production ! |